An Australian senator's call for immigration controls on Kiwis to be reviewed in response to a UN resolution on Israeli settlements is "absolutely nuts", Labour says.
Kelvin Davis, who as Labour's Corrections spokesman has campaigned against deportations of New Zealand citizens from Australia, said One Nation Senator Malcolm Roberts was "a bit simple" whose time in politics is "denying a village somewhere in Australia of its idiot".
"We shouldn't be surprised at One Nation's low IQ politics ... New Zealand at the UN stood up for what they believe is right. One Nation stands for hate and division and brighter people than Malcolm Roberts have decided the way to peace is not to engage in conflict," Davis told Newstalk ZB.
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Aussie political party calls for Kiwis to be punished over UN resolution
Aussie political party calls for Kiwis to be punished over UN resolution
New Zealand co-sponsored a resolution in the United Nations Security Council last month criticising Israeli settlements as violating international law and undermining a two-state solution with Palestine.
The resolution was passed 14-0 at the last council meeting of 2016, and New Zealand's last meeting in its two-year term as an elected member of the Security Council. Crucially, the US abstained.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered his foreign ministry to temporarily limit ties with the 12 UNSC members that voted in favour of the resolution, being Britain, France, Russia, China, Japan, Ukraine, Angola, Egypt, Uruguay, Spain, Senegal and New Zealand.
Source: nzherald
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